Pandora

Pandora is an interesting site that Dan pointed me towards. You enter the name of some song or artist that you like and the Pandora program finds an example of that music and then creates a streaming playlist of "similar" music. It tries to give you music of a similar tone/instrument set to the music you like so that you will enjoy whatever comes up. It seems to work well and is really nice way to find new music.

Now if only it knew what Crystal Chronicles was....

Hmmm... I didn't enter the link quite right to be caught by the parser and I can see no way to edit posts.

Fixed it. Edit will come when I have some free time and can figure out an appropriate UI :)

I gave Pandora a shot a month or two back, while the idea is impressive I'm not sure it really delivers. The "related songs" it finds seem pretty arbitrary. I think I'd have just as much luck finding something I'm interested in by listening to a huge collection of songs shuffled randomly.

It is nice to listen to at work when I forget my iPod, though.